Yale University declines offer from novelist and playwright Larry Kramer to bequeath several million dollars to his alma mater to endow permanent, tenured professorship in gay studies and possibly to build gay and lesbian student center; Yale provost Alison Richard comments; photo (M)

Writing Own Script, Yale Refuses Kramer's Millions for Gay Studies

Remains of Col Lewis H Abrams, who had been missing in action in Vietnam War and whose remains were recently identified, will be buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)

Burial of Veteran's Remains

Gas prices in New Jersey have declined 8 percent to $1.14 since last June (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)

Gas Prices Decline 8 Percent

Historic Georgian manor house Liberty Hall, home of New Jersey's first post-revolutionary governor, William Livingston, is donated to Liberty Hall Foundation in Union, NJ (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)

Historic Liberty Hall Donated

 Dow Sets Another Record, Rising by More Than 100  The Dow Jones industrial average hit its 32d record close of the year and its first above 7,900. It surged 103.82 points, or 1.32 percent, to 7,962.31, as investors remained optimistic about corporate profits and a stable economy. Broader market indexes also set records, with the Standard & Poor's 500 rising 6.55 points, to 918.75, and the Nasdaq composite index increasing 14.36 points, to 1,485.10.   The Dow was bolstered by heavy demand for cyclical issues, like International Paper -- which announced that it planned to cut its work force and sell assets -- as well as Caterpillar and Du Pont. $(Page D6.$)

BUSINESS DIGEST

Leaders of North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting in Madrid agree to invite three former adversaries, Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary, to join NATO in time for its 50th anniversary in 1999; Pres Clinton hails decision; leaders of three nations express gratitude and optimism that membership will help preserve freedom for all; decision comes after vigorous debate, led by France, about merits of also admitting Romania and Slovenia in current expansion; Russian Foreign Min, Yevgeny M Primakov, scores expansion; Sen William V Roth Jr, who heads Senate's NATO observer group, hails expansion; Sen Trent Lott sees Senate approval likely; map; table (L)

3 FORMER MEMBERS OF EASTERN BLOC INVITED INTO NATO

Interview with Chastity Bono, 28-year-old daughter of Cher and Repr Sonny Bono, who is lesbian and gay rights activist; photos (M)

Growing Up In Public: From Babe In Arms To Gay Advocate

Home health care aide Scott L Baker is convicted, Toms River, of murdering his former employer, Beatrice Baskin, during 1993 robbery (S) (New Jersey Daily Briefing)

Health Aide Guilty of Murder

Many New York State Democratic leaders see state party, which once set ideological pace for national party, struggling to reconcile its liberal traditions with electorate moving to middle; party, bereft of money and high profile elected officials, is out of power and plagued by division and lack of party discipline; is clinging to kind of liberalism rapidly falling into disfavor with Democrats outside state (L)

New York State's Democrats See Party Adrift and Divided

International Paper Co says it will sell $1 billion in assets and cut 9,000 jobs, or more than 10 percent of its work force, as it seeks to improve profitability in an increasingly competitive industry; company says bulk of job cuts will come as workers are transferred when International Paper sells some units; to pay for reorganization, company says it took $535 million in charges before taxes, or $385 million after taxes, against second-quarter earnings; as a result, it posts loss of $419 million in quarter, compared with profit of $99 million in year-earlier quarter; without the charges, company earned $59 million, exceeding analysts' estimates; table; graphs (L)

International Paper to Cut Staff by 10%

Analysis of Montgomery Ward's decision to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection; says Ward's turnaround plan is far less certain than those of R H Macy & Co and other retailers that have filed for Chapter 11 protection in last decade (L)

Just Another Retail Bankruptcy? Maybe Not.

The Bosnian Serb leader charged with war crimes continues to exercise his power, obstructing the Bosnian peace agreement, as NATO leaders gathered in Madrid discuss how to resolve the issue.    Article, page A4.  

In Bosnia, Defiance

 FOR THE DEFENSE -- A lawyer for Vincent Gigante began hammering away at what he said were disparities in the prosecution's case. B3.    A SHIFTING STRATEGY -- The lawyer for 12-year-old Malcolm Shabazz agreed in court that the boy was competent to stand trial. B4.    LILCO PLAN ASSAILED -- The Suffolk County Legislature issued a report calling a partial state takeover of Lilco ''a worst-case scenario.'' B4.    MOVING IN -- The Legal Aid Society has moved into elegant new headquarters. Metro Business, B6.    BIDS RECEIVED -- Bids for a road and tunnel project in Atlantic City are in, and state officials said they were in line with their own estimates. B6.  

INSIDE METRO

Clinton Administration officials reviewing tobacco industry's pact with state attorneys general and plaintiffs' lawyers hold it would dilute Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate nicotine and place impossible new burdens on FDA; say Clinton will not back any deal unless FDA's power to regulate tobacco is affirmed and strengthened; Vice Pres Al Gore, Health and Human Services Sec Donna E Shalala and Clinton aide Bruce Reed are set to meet with Drs C Everett Koop and David A Kessler, who lead public health panel set up to advise Congress on proposed pact (M)

WHITE HOUSE SEES ADVERSE EFFECTS IN TOBACCO PLAN

Article in Sharing in the Land series examines operations of Threshold Farm Community Supported Agriculture, Claverack, NY, agricultural cooperative that supplies collective in Manhattan with high-quality produce for 30-week growing season; its members, who pay in advance defraying farmers' production costs, are not buyers as much as partners in planning crops and budgets and sharing harvest, along with vicissitudes of nature; photos (M)

Urban Living Off the Land

New York State lawmakers have narrowed their differences on remaking welfare system, and appear close to agreement that will maintain benefit levels for families with children, while taking first steps toward replacing cash payments to some recipients with vouchers; outlines of potential deal on welfare, split difference between Gov George E Pataki's call for broad withdrawal from state's traditionally expansive role as supporter of poor, and attempts by Democrats who control Assembly to protect as much as they can in current system (M)

Albany Welfare Accord Is Called Near, Without Family Cuts

David Gonzalez, in About New York column, notes that Parodneck Foundation for Self-Help Housing and Community Development is helping tenants to restore two decrepit apartment houses in Washington Heights; says group helped tenants get about $2.8 million in city grants and private loans to begin construction this summer; says tenants bought buildings for $1 from last of string of landlords, and are waiting for city to waive $500,000 in liens against buildings; quotes Parodneck Foundation pres Harold DeRienzo (M)

From Milk And Mortar, Help and Hope

 Race and the Census  A task force urged that instead of adding ''multiracial,'' the census let people list themselves as members of more than one race. Page A12.    Witness to Martian Tumult  The first chemical analysis of a rock on Mars found high levels of quartz, a sign of tumultuous eons of melting, cooling and remelting. Page A16.     Paper Giant to Shrink  International Paper said it planned to sell $1 billion in assets and cut 9,000 jobs, or more than 10 percent of its work force, as a result. Page D1.  

INSIDE

State study finds that New Jersey state colleges and universities spend estimated $30 million above national average on building and maintenance costs (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)

Higher Education's High Costs

William M Daley, new head of US Commerce Department, devoted his first trip abroad--to South America in May--to behind-the-scenes diplomacy; trip deliberately lacked high-profile trade agreements and corporate contracts that former Sec Ronald H Brown announced on one of his first important missions--to China in August 1994; Daley, attuned to controversies surrounding Brown's rich brew of business and politics, has already altered the tone of Commerce Department's trade missions, setting clear criteria for how companies are chosen and playing down signing of big deals; table; photos (L)

At Commerce Dept., No More Flash a la Ron Brown

Sen Fred Thompson, opening Senate committee public hearings on campaign finances, says probe has uncovered evidence of plot by China to influence 1996 United States elections; Sen John Glenn, panel's top Democrat, says John Huang, whose fund-raising for Democrats among Asian-Americans is at heart of probe, may be willing to testify about charges he was foreign agent and engaged in espionage in exchange for immunity from prosecution for violating campaign laws; panel votes unanimously to open talks with Huang's lawyer, Ty Cobb; several senators later raise doubts about granting immunity; photos (M)

Huang May Yet Testify to Senate Panel

Ground is broken in Atlantic City for building of minor league baseball stadium (New Jersey Daily Briefing) (S)

From Blackjack to Bat Crack

Federal prosecutors say Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa, immigrant who rose from gas-station attendant to multimillionaire owner of 51 City Gas service stations, has been defrauding customers at pump for years and ordered at least three murders to cover up his schemes; say one victim, Satinderjit Singh, was former gas-station employee who had been working as informer for police and FBI (M)

Filling Stations' Owner Held in Fraud and Killings

ING Groep NV, Dutch financial giant, agrees to buy Equitable of Iowa Companies for $2.2 billion in cash and stock, as well as to assume $400 million in debt, effectively doubling size of its American life insurance business to more than $20 billion (Market Place column) (L)

Shopping for U.S. Insurer, Dutch Giant Buys in Iowa

Frank Prial on mellow, old Caribbean rums; photos (M)

Mellow Old Rums, Worthy of a Snifter

The Fokker 100 is a regional jet that was produced by Fokker in the Netherlands.

The Fokker 100 was based on the Fokker F28 with a fuselage stretched by 5.7 m (18.8 ft) to seat up to 109 passengers, up from 85.
It is powered by two newer Rolls-Royce Tay turbofans, and it has an updated glass cockpit and a wider wing and tail for increased maximum weights. The Fokker 70 is a shortened variant that can hold up to 85 passengers and was developed for shorter routes, which first flew in April of 1993.

A Fokker 100 from the Brazilian airline TAM launches engineer Fernando Caldeira de Moura Campos into 2,400 meters of free fall after an explosion that depressurized the aircraft.

July 9, 1997

Headlines from July 9, 1997

Writing Own Script, Yale Refuses Kramer's Millions for Gay Studies

Burial of Veteran's Remains

Gas Prices Decline 8 Percent

Historic Liberty Hall Donated

BUSINESS DIGEST

Billboard 200

Spice

Middle Of Nowhere

Everywhere

Generation Swine

Batman & Robin

Historical Events

Historical Context for July 9, 1997